The food you eat can have just as profound an effect on your brain and your mental health as the drugs prescribed by your doctor. The reason: Your gut and your brain are in constant communication with each other.

What we know about crisis response may fly out the window when an actual crisis occurs. This printable visual crisis checklist is designed to be fun to review and easy-to-remember.

Just like physical health is important, psychological wellness is also vital for living a happy life. Explore how to stay psychologically healthy at any age.

Relaxation Techniques for Mental Health is a blog post for mental health professionals by Aspira CE: a provider of quality online CEUs.

Because of their window of tolerance, people can either be reactive or disconnected. Read on to find out what the window of tolerance is.

Stop stressing at work! Embrace mindfulness! Discover the top 10 ways to be more mindful at work and get better performance and mental health + [INFOGRAPHIC]

10 questions to check in with your loved ones.

With time and practice, triggers can shrink from giant trapdoors in our path down to little puddles we know how to splash through.

Hand of Mental Health encourages us to reflect and discuss our everyday choices and their impact on our mental health. How does sleep and rest, food, relationships and emotions affect our mental…

A complete guide to starting a mental health blog (or any kind of blog), how to get traffic and different ways to make money from your blog.

Certain thoughts, actions, and activities can trigger more anxiety. Find out 12 common habits that make anxiety worse, which you can change.

These 8 dimensions, also known as the 8 Pillars of Wellness offer an invaluable, forward thinking model and map to becoming a flourishing, productive and

People-pleasing has harmful impacts on your emotional well-being. Here are 8 powerful ways to stop being a people-pleaser but still be nice.

A visual guide to burnout: what it is, what it isn't, and how to get the best care for yourself.

For those of you who find relaxation a hard place to be, and work way beyond 40 hours a week at your job, along with caretaking your children, or house duties, or fighting with your spouse, or listening to friends or family member’s problems, or whatever else that might keep you ON... today we are reviewing the nervous

The second redeeming benefit of 15 minutes a day of homework is teaching a sense of self-esteem. Self-esteem and confidence are part of human's basic needs.

While worry and anxiety can both make you pretty miserable, they're two separate psychological states occurring in different parts of your brain.

Monday I felt absolutely terrible. There was no real reason, no real trigger. I just felt blue, out of the blue (ha! sorry, (...) Read More

Are you a perfectionist? Do you battle with the need to do “all or nothing”? My mother is a full-on perfectionist… in all the guts and glory. Her perfection helped her win the Gold Medal in Pharmacy at the University of British Columbia way back when there were hardly any women studying science at universities. ... Read More

Your brain is constantly searching for patterns to make your experience easier. For this reason, you may not think about how you are going to drive a car or put your pants on in the morning…you just…

Panic Attacks On The Outside •Sweating, •Blushing, •Fidgeting, •Nail-biting, •Skin picking, •Running, trying to get outside or to safety (home),

Use this handout to familiarize your team with the warnings signs that signal burnout.

As part of our ongoing education program at Santa Rita Jail, Planting Justice offered a workshop that featured 'Holistic Wellness' for about 30 incarcerated

The 8 C's of Self-Leadership in IFS

Self Sabotage: • Not Relaxing Until Everything Is Done. • Holding back from good opportunities because of fear. Mental health quotes, life quotes.

My article Depression and Your Messy House is the most read article on this blog in the past year. If you’ve ever found yourself caught in the vicious cycle of perfectionism and depression, you are not alone.

Sharing our favorite Instagrams to support those of us dealing with anxiety in our daily and work lives. via studio wallflower

"I always feel like I’m an inconvenience to everyone around me."